CVE-2025-3051 Information

Description

Linux::Statm::Tiny for Perl before 0.0701 allows untrusted code from the current working directory (’.’) to be loaded similar to CVE-2016-1238.

If an attacker can place a malicious file in current working directory it may be loaded instead of the intended file potentially leading to arbitrary code execution.

Linux::Statm::Tiny uses Mite to produce the affected code section due to CVE-2025-30672

Reference

https://blogs.perl.org/users/todd_rinaldo/2016/11/what-happened-to-dot-in-inc.html https://metacpan.org/release/RRWO/Linux-Statm-Tiny-0.0700/source/lib/Linux/Statm/Tiny/Mite.pm#L82 https://metacpan.org/release/RRWO/Linux-Statm-Tiny-0.0701/changes